Toolkits overview

A toolkit is a bundle of capabilities your Jootle gains when you install it.

Concretely, a toolkit can add:

• New views in your sidebar (an Ideas tab, a Decisions tab, an Inventory tab).
• New playbooks your Jootle can run.
• New entity types to track domain-specific things.
• New actions your Jootle can take in conversation.
• New dashboard widgets.

You install a toolkit once. From then on, your Jootle has those capabilities wherever it goes, in every channel, scoped to whatever entities make sense.

Why toolkits exist

Without any toolkit, your Jootle instance is already capable — chat, projects, knowledge, channels, Production Studio, email, and so on are all core. That’s plenty for most of what most customers need on day one.

Toolkits exist for the specialised layer on top. Tracking ideas as their own first-class thing, with structured lenses to evaluate them, benefits from a focused toolkit. Tracking customer relationships with a sales pipeline benefits from a CRM toolkit. Running an inventory of physical items benefits from an inventory toolkit. Rather than build every possible vertical into the core, Jootle ships a small, sharp core and lets you install toolkits as you need them.

The benefit is that your sidebar stays clean (you don’t have a CRM tab if you don’t use a CRM), and your Jootle’s defaults stay focused on what you actually do.

What a toolkit looks like installed

When you install a toolkit, three things happen:

1. A new sidebar entry appears. Clicking it opens that toolkit’s workspace.
2. New capabilities become available in chat. Your Jootle now knows the toolkit’s terminology, entities, and workflows.
3. New playbooks appear in your Playbooks view. Each toolkit usually contributes a few, ready to run.

You don’t reconfigure anything. Installation is a single action in the library, and the new capabilities are live within seconds.

What’s already in your instance

Some capabilities are core — always present, no toolkit required. The full list is in What’s actually built in, but the highlights:

• Chat, conversation, knowledge graph, memory.
• Projects, programs, tasks.
• Production Studio — including Forge, Voice Studio, Video Studio, and Vector Studio.
• Lists, contacts, artifacts.
• Channels (web, Telegram, email, Slack).
• AI provider configuration.

Fresh instances ship with zero toolkits. Anything beyond the core arrives only when you install it from the library or import a .jtf.json file.

The library

The library is where you browse and install. It’s a catalogue inside your instance — Tools → Library in your sidebar.

The library is being populated as the Jootle team finishes packaging toolkits. Check the storefront from your instance for the current catalogue.

Uninstalling

Toolkits can be uninstalled. The sidebar entry disappears, the playbooks it added are deactivated, and your Jootle stops referencing the toolkit’s terminology.

Your data is preserved by default. If you had entities created by an installed toolkit and you uninstall it, the data sits dormant; reinstalling brings it back. If you genuinely want a toolkit’s data gone, there’s a separate “delete this toolkit’s data” action after uninstall.

Tip: install when you need, not before

Customers sometimes try to install every toolkit on day one “to see what’s there”. Don’t.

The first week with a clean sidebar is one of the most pleasant experiences. Your Jootle’s responses stay focused on your work, not on the universe of features that might exist. When you actually need a specific capability (“I want a better way to track decisions”), install that one toolkit then. The friction of installing is small enough that you won’t lose time.

What a toolkit is NOT

Toolkits are not:

• A plugin store with random shovelware. Each toolkit in the library is reviewed before publication. Community-submitted toolkits go through review the same way.
• Permanent. You can uninstall anytime.
• Required. A blank-state Jootle is a fine Jootle. Toolkits add capabilities; they don’t unlock you to do basic things.

Custom toolkits

You can build your own toolkit for needs unique to your business. The chapter Building your own toolkits walks through how, including a downloadable Claude skill that helps your Jootle produce installable toolkits for you.

You can also import a toolkit someone else built — see Importing and exporting.